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The United States military, since their first use of airplanes have given most of their fighter craft the designation of F. The F4F Corsair, for example.
Navy Lieutenant Edgar G. Osborne looked at his watch. It was 8:20 in the morning of April 18, 1942. The flight deck officer flagged Lt. Col. Doolittle .
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US Air Force
The B-52 has been one of the Air Force s go-to bombers for nearly a century.
But for a decade early in the Cold War, the B-52 was dwarfed by another US bomber: the B-36 Peacemaker.
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress has the nickname Big Ugly Fat F -er or just the BUFF but is it the biggest bomber that ever served? Believe it or not, that answer is, No.
There was a much bigger bomber in the fleet and while it never dropped a bomb in anger, it was the backbone of Strategic Air Command in its early years. That plane was the Convair B-36 Peacemaker.